Category: Fire Debris Analysis

Reconstruction of the Grenfell tower fire—Part 6—Numerical simulation of the Grenfell tower disaster: Contribution to the understanding of the tenability conditions inside the common areas of the tower

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Eric Guillaume, Virginie Drean, Bertrand Girardin, Talal Fateh

Fire and Materials; 46(7); 2022

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Reconstruction of Grenfell Tower fire. Part 3—Numerical simulation of the Grenfell Tower disaster: Contribution to the understanding of the fire propagation and behaviour during the vertical fire spread

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Eric Guillaume, Virginie Dréan, Bertrand Girardin, Faiz Benameur, Maxime Koohkan, Talal Fateh

Fire and Materials; 44(1); 2020

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A systematic review on materials, design, and manufacturing of swabs

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Vedant Vashist, Neil Banthia, Swapnil Kumar, Prajwal Agrawal

Annals 3D Printed Med; 9; 2023

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Adventure Legal Medicine: a free online serious game for supplementary use in undergraduate medical education

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Sven Anders, Antonia Steen, Tjark Müller, Waldemar Krause, Annika Sanwald, Tobias Raupach, Benjamin Ondruschka & Oliver Krebs

Int J Legal Med; 2023

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Likelihood Ratio as Weight of Forensic Evidence: A Closer Look

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Steven P. Lund and HariIyer

J Res Natl Inst Stan; 122; 2017

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Is Forensic Science Scientific? Crime lab errors and privacy issues raise concerns

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John H Tibbetts

BioScience; 70(5); 2020

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Federal Justice Statistics, 2021

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Mark Motivans, PhD, BJS Statistician

Bureau Justice Stat; , US DOJ; 30pp; December 2022

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On the Commonly-Used Incorrect Visual Representation of Accuracy and Precision

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Shervin Shirmohammadi, Luca Mari, and Dario Petri

IEEE; 24(1); 2021

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A call for more science in forensic science

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Suzanne Bell, Sunita Sah, Thomas D. Albright, S. James Gates Jr., M. Bonner Dentone, Arturo Casadevall

PNAS; 115(18); 2018

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Inconclusives and error rates in forensic science: a signal detection theory approach

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Hal R Arkes, Jonathan J Koehler

Law Prob Risk; 20(3); 2021

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Registered reports in forensic science

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M. M. Houck, J. Chin, H. Swofford,and C. Gibb

R Soc Open Sci; 9; 2022

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Testing for calibration discrepancy of reported likelihood ratios in forensic science

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Jan Hannig, Hari Iyer

J Royal Stat Soc Series A; 185(1); 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: The Application of Text Analytics (Part 3 of 3)

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Shute, Rebecca, Brailey Faris, Matthew Mecray, Mikalaa Martin, Ashley Rodriguez, Shannon Krauss, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: Digitizing Case Files (Part 2 of 3)

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Shute, Rebecca, Brailey Faris, Matthew Mecray, Mikalaa Martin, Ashley Rodriguez, Shannon Krauss, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Digital Transformation of Cold Case Reviews: Prevalence, Challenges, and Benefits of Just Resolutions (Part 1 of 3)

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Rodriguez, Ashley, Mikalaa Martin, Rebecca Shute, Brailey Faris, Shannon Krauss, Matthew Mecray, and Patricia Melton

FTCoE; USDOJ; NIJ; Office Invest Forensic Sci; November 2022

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Educating the Jury on Metrology

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Ted Vosk; Gil Sapir

IEEE Instrument Measurement Mag; 24(1); 2021

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The Effects of Experimental Whole-Body Burning on Histological Age-at-Death Estimation from Human Cortical Bone and Dental Cementum

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Sophia R. Mavroudas, Lauren A. Meckel, Timothy P. Gocha, Justin Z. Goldstein, Shelby L. Garza

Biology; 11(11); 2022

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Bayes Factors for Forensic Decision Analyses with R

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Silvia Bozza, Franco Taroni, Alex Biedermann

Springer; 196pp; 2022

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Modern Methods of Scientific Criminology in the Detection of Crime

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Edward L. Miloslavich

Marq L Rev; 14(2); 1930

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Designing Visualisations for Bayesian Problems According to Multimedia Principles

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Theresa Büchter, Nicole Steib, Katharina Böcherer-Linder, Andreas Eichler, Stefan Krauss, Karin Binder, Markus Vogel

Educ Sci; 12(11); 2022

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A Research Agenda for the Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland–Urban Interface: A National Academies Consensus Report

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Megan E. Harries, David T. Allen, Olorunfemi Adetona, Michelle L. Bell, Marilyn S. Black, Jefferey L. Burgess, Frederick L. Dryer, Amara L. Holder, Ana Mascareñas, Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz, Anna A. Stec, Barbara J. Turpin, and Judith T. Zelikoff

Environ Sci Technol; 2022

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Swapping Carrots for Sticks: Forensic science provider views of the Forensic Regulator Act 2021

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Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako, Carole McCartney

Sci Just; 62(5); 2022

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The Bayes’ factor: the coherent measure for hypothesis confirmation

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Franco Taroni, Paolo Garbolino, Silvia Bozza, Colin Aitken

Law Prob Risk; 20(1); 2021

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Policing Forensic Evidence

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Brandon L. Garrett

Amer J Law Equality; 2; 2022

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The Need for a Research Culture in the Forensic Sciences

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Jennifer L. Mnookin, Simon A. Cole, Itiel E. Dror, Barry A. J. Fisher, Max M. Houck, Keith Inman, David H. Kaye, Jonathan J. Koehler, Glenn Langenburg, D. Michael Risinger, Norah Rudin, Jay Siegel, and David A. Stoney

UCLA Law Rev; 58(725); 2011

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Environmental conditions and bodily decomposition: Implications for long term management of war fatalities and the identification of the dead during the ongoing Ukrainian conflict

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Sarah I. Ashbridge, Patrick S. Randolph-Quinney, Rob C. Janaway, Shari L. Forbes, Olga Ivshina

Forensic Sc Int Synerg; 5; 2022

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Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal

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Volume 55, Issue 3; 2022

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Alcohol, Anthropology, Biometrics, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Chemistry, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, Criminal Justice System, Digital and Multimedia Analysis, DNA and Biology, Dogs and Sensors, DREs / Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutors, Education and Training, Entomology, Fingerprints / Friction Ridge, Fire Debris Analysis, Fire Investigation and Explosions, Firearms and Toolmarks, Footwear and Tire, Forensic Pathology and Medicolegal Death Investigation, Genetic Genealogy, Laboratory Operations, Odontology, Photography, Video, and Imaging Technology, Questioned Documents, Seized Drugs/Controlled Substances, Sexual Assault / SANE, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Standards, Statistics and Data Analysis, Tables of Content, Toxicology, Trace Evidence, Veterinary Forensics, Wildlife